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PRIMULA venústa. 
Purple Auricula. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PRIMULACEZ. 
PRIMULA. Supra, vol. 7. fol. 539. 
P. venusta ; foliis oblongo-obovatis undulatis glabris repando-denticulatis, flori- 
bus umbellatis nutantibus, calyce tubuloso quinquefido. Hort. FI. Austr. 
1. 248. Reichenb. pl. crit. 7. t. 851. 
* P. Freyeri, Hoppe." sec Reichenb. 
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Brought from the Botanic Garden, Vienna, in 1833, by 
the Hon. W. F. Strangways, from whom was received the 
aree that furnished the accompanying figure in May 
ast. 
The species was first distinguished from P. auricula by 
Host, on account of its smooth toothletted leaves, long- 
tubed calyx, and purple flowers; he had procured it from 
the hilly parts of Hungary, about Hladnik, and also from 
Mount Baldo. Reichenbach, upon various authorities, adds 
the crevices of rocks at Krain near Idria, the alps of Kobila, 
and Laybach, placing the species near glutinosa and carnio- 
lica at a distance from P. auricula. In fact it seems to differ 
a P. carniolica chiefly in its more obovate denticulated 
eaves, 
Mr. Strangways suspects that, as there are amongst the 
garden Auriculas varieties which from length of tube, 
form of limb, &c. do not appear to have come from one origi- 
nal species, this may have been in part their parent, a con- 
jeeture which the eye of the corolla much strengthens. 
